I don’t get the big deal behind him; he’s NOT That nice the way some of you niggas ride his dick. I mean, he’s dope, but there are plenty of other rappers doing what he’s doing, and a couple doing it better.

I don’t get the big deal behind him; he’s NOT That nice the way some of you niggas ride his dick. I mean, he’s dope, but there are plenty of other rappers doing what he’s doing, and a couple doing it better.

life is like a dice game, one roll can land you in jail, or cutting cake blowing kisses in the rice rain
================================
If you can’t comprehend Exhibit A, Jay Elec’s music ain’t for you.

ok, then what is the song “dimethyltryptamine” about?
=======================================
Dude’s music can’t be described that way. At least not the stuff that’s been released thus far. There’s a bunch of different themes in his songs.

The Man Jay Electronica is poised to put Bad Boy back where it belongs…Everywhere. With a smooth delivery and lyrics that are clear, on time, and very real, Jay Electronica is the next voice of Hip Hop.

Reviews The Source Magazine says that upon hearing “Lock, Stock,” that they had their next five mic album. A Hip Hop rarity. Be one of the first to experience the phenomenon. Listen in, and keep your eyes open for the next great voice of Hip Hop. Diddy was right, He won’t stop.

The Man Jay Electronica is poised to put Bad Boy back where it belongs…Everywhere. With a smooth delivery and lyrics that are clear, on time, and very real, Jay Electronica is the next voice of Hip Hop.

Reviews The Source Magazine says that upon hearing “Lock, Stock,” that they had their next five mic album. A Hip Hop rarity. Be one of the first to experience the phenomenon. Listen in, and keep your eyes open for the next great voice of Hip Hop. Diddy was right, He won’t stop.

And I know he’s signed to Erykah, but if you believe that press release, he was signed to Puff at one time.

It all adds to the Electronica mystique.

pigs with the heads of men, spat acid
that lasered my third eye closed, like lasik
a midget in a casket like a baby in a bonnet with a bottle and a basset
horn playin the theme song from children of the corn
oh i must be dreamin
a lady in a night gown puffing kush screamin
signaled me over psst you with the waves
i seen you from the catholic church steeple diggin graves,
i got your number sonny,
so aint no use in fightin yellin or running from me
i never ran maam
well then you aint a clever man sam
listen, the two faced king from britain and rome
had a baby in the bush on the grassy knoll
where the peeled back the orange head peel of a gnome
he said he emcee, i know you like killin them
you terrorize the skies for twenty-five milleniums
now you settin fire to land
you the lion you the savior the messiah the lamb
you need backup he movin on the youth at dawn
call badu and get tyrone on the megaphone
tell em i sent you and your codename is megatron
if trouble come use your brain like a telephone
he’ll take you to the chocolate city
where two face and the prince of darkness have they committee of snakes
drill em, let the skin peel off the reveal em
then spray em with them rhymes you like spillin
hit em up real real good but dont kill em
we only wanna burn em to the point that they willin
to give the location of the blank faced villain
who split atoms and give mushrooms to civilians
hiroshima never recovered
and all the evidence was smothered
under a thick cloud of rubble
the pope is his brother
the hillsides is his mother
the statue with the torch and steel eyes is his lover
shes a harlot who stood still like time while new york turned scarlet
and the levee monster sucked up new orleans
while they was playin man vs man in afganhistan
with they mind of iran, iraq and sudan
let em recruit you
he will try to use his powers to seduce you
just let him think that the feelin is mutual
cuz if he found out that you already knew
the atom had a positive a negative and a neutral
hell probably salute you
then wait til you turn your back like a coward and shoot you
man this shit is crucial

chyea, you from the third ward right,
very treacherous,
a place where they kidnap assassins and bury specialists

Jay Electronica: yes, it was a pretty brief ordeal. After Chav and I recorded War With the Dragon, we did the artwork and packaged maybe a hundred of them in DVD casing. We went to Dilla’s at like 2 in the morning, asked his permission to use a few of the records that were his on there to go to NYC and secure a deal. so like zealots, we went to Kinko’s and printed these fake front page newspaper articles about Jay Electronica etc… I’ll try and dig one up. Then we drove from Detroit to NYC, when we got there, we went on impulse and plastered them all over the front of the building bad boy was in. At the time Diddy was supposed to be coming down or something, there was a caravan parked and waiting, so of course they called security on us and we ended up having a little scene on the sidewalk.
This sister Nicollet, after everything had calmed down, came over and asked for a few of the DVD’s we had and saw the flyer, she asked if we made films, so we gave them to her and bounced. Maybe an hour later we got a call saying that they wanted us to meet them at the studio and that Harve Pierre and some other guy, I cant remember his name, wanted to meet with us. So we went and they were filming Making The Band at the time and we ended up waiting a long time and were told that they would reschedule. So we ended up bouncing from NYC. Chav went to Detroit and I went to Mexico City with my man Born Righteous and Bad Boy contacted me down there to setup a meeting when I got back, but nothing ever materialized. As for the stuff on the SOHH forums, that’s a whole other story.

Jay Electronica: yes, it was a pretty brief ordeal. After Chav and I recorded War With the Dragon, we did the artwork and packaged maybe a hundred of them in DVD casing. We went to Dilla’s at like 2 in the morning, asked his permission to use a few of the records that were his on there to go to NYC and secure a deal. so like zealots, we went to Kinko’s and printed these fake front page newspaper articles about Jay Electronica etc… I’ll try and dig one up. Then we drove from Detroit to NYC, when we got there, we went on impulse and plastered them all over the front of the building bad boy was in. At the time Diddy was supposed to be coming down or something, there was a caravan parked and waiting, so of course they called security on us and we ended up having a little scene on the sidewalk.
This sister Nicollet, after everything had calmed down, came over and asked for a few of the DVD’s we had and saw the flyer, she asked if we made films, so we gave them to her and bounced. Maybe an hour later we got a call saying that they wanted us to meet them at the studio and that Harve Pierre and some other guy, I cant remember his name, wanted to meet with us. So we went and they were filming Making The Band at the time and we ended up waiting a long time and were told that they would reschedule. So we ended up bouncing from NYC. Chav went to Detroit and I went to Mexico City with my man Born Righteous and Bad Boy contacted me down there to setup a meeting when I got back, but nothing ever materialized. As for the stuff on the SOHH forums, that’s a whole other story.

Through the gates of Hell like a battering ram
Clapping, yelling profanities like Yosemite Sam
After that, I’m back home scannin’ the land
Twenty Three million square miles of contraband
I know ya feel me but still hope the opposition kill me
Cause you don’t want to see God manifest really
UFO’s & cabbage water, Willie The Kid
You ain’t seen one of these in a trillion years
Abracadabra, I popped out the meat grinder shining
The elegant artform of rhyming’s just blinding
And that’s just a regular hat trick
A trick lock, a 90 gallon tank, yeah, I’m back on that shit
The ark building madman from Hotel Deux
Act Two, coming through a dream by you
Young Slumdog from Uptown, pocket full of Rupee’s
Torn up sheets of looseleaf & one Lucy

Hold the fuck up. Where have I been? Diddy signed Jay Elec? Does he not know what Puff does to niggas careers? Damn he couldn’t sign with (damn, I really can’t think of any label that would ‘fit’ Jay’s style/aura). I guess Bad Boy is cool for now. They should just put every other Bad Boy project (including “Last Train to Paris) on hold and put a REAL PUSH behind Jay’s shit. Damn, I gotta look this shit up. For real? Signed with the shiny suit man for real? Say it ain’t so.

what kind of movement does Jay Elec have going outside the net??
========================================
It’s too early on a Sunday to get into this but real talk, only time I see cats mention KP is when there is a Jay Elec convo going on.

>>only time I see cats mention KP is when there is a Jay Elec convo going on

=====
to me its a generational thing. most cats on here don’t listen to music pre-2000 unless its Jay, Nas or Pac. Jay-E is a newer artists so he gets chatted up more, even though he’s already in his 30’s.

most cats on here don’t listen to music pre-2000 unless its Jay, Nas or Pac.
==============================================
Nah is one small corner of the nets. There are real Hip-Hop fans out there that listen to everything and I never see KP mentioned unless he’s promoting an album (Dude drops albums twice a year) or it’s in comparison to JE.

Jay Elec is good but he’s definitely the most overrated cat on Nah. he needs more music. period. since when is it ok to drop a handful of tracks and niggas wanna give you the throne?

it dont work that way. u gotta produce. Niggas want so badly to believe the hype…all these artists and producers talkin about what a great soul Jay Elec is and all that but at the end of the day, where is your album nigga? where them mixtapes at?

Niggas want so badly to believe the hype…all these artists and producers talkin about what a great soul Jay Elec is and all that but at the end of the day, where is your album nigga? where them mixtapes at?
=============================================
Productivity or lack thereof takes nothing away from dude’s talent.

And just from what I’ve read, interviews I’ve seen & the way Jay carries himself on twitter, I think he is a unique cat. If he never dropped an album, I’d still say he’s one of the illest cats out there. Not GOAT status, but with such a small body of work, his impact has been undeniable.

>>he needs more music. period. since when is it ok to drop a handful of tracks and niggas wanna give you the throne?

^co-sign full hundred. a year ago there were some calling Charles Hamilton the next GOAT….*dies*. his falling off is the most stunning i’ve ever seen. some ninjaz is just too eager these days. there’s just no patience any more. the net has spoiled us in that way.

^co-sign full hundred. a year ago there were some calling Charles Hamilton the next GOAT….*dies*. his falling off is the most stunning i’ve ever seen. some ninjaz is just too eager these days. there’s just no patience any more. the net has spoiled us in that way.

–he had potential tho, Before the dude showed his bipolar side he had dope cotent, dope lyrics, and was creative to a T. He fucked up

lol @ people mad that *other* people think jay elec is good. that’s the definition of being a hater right there. how you gon be mad at someone *else’s* opinion? you have your own opinion. ain’t nobody forcing you to think anything. just take your merry ass on to another post. SMH.

dont be ridiculous, dont nobody know about this nigga. let’s be real. Its easy to put out a great body of work when u drop 5 songs a year. Think about it.

^^

for what its worth jay electronica gets burn on my local radio station..ive heard “exhibit a” and “hard to get” on radio hella times…but i also went to the mos concert wit jay and erykah and it felt like i was the only one that knew who jay was

i didn’t think uprock was that great. glad later reports said that wasn’t jay. it was alright, decent lyrics and flow, but nothing mind-blowing. i do miss dudes rhyming at faster tempos though, that’s sorely missed on the scene right about now.

lol @ people mad that *other* people think jay elec is good. that’s the definition of being a hater right there. how you gon be mad at someone *else’s* opinion? you have your own opinion. ain’t nobody forcing you to think anything. just take your merry ass on to another post. SMH.

^

well. this is Nah and we have discussions about hip hop here. i dont hate dude at all, this has nothing to do with J.E. really.

“this” is cats falling in love with his image. He’s like Hannah Montana out this bitch.
=====================================
But I think his “image” is closer to who he really is then most of these rappers.

Dude is a quirky weirdo, but there’s a genuine quality he has that alot of artists lack.

spirit equality Says:
October 25th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
lol @ people mad that *other* people think jay elec is good. that’s the definition of being a hater right there. how you gon be mad at someone *else’s* opinion? you have your own opinion.

^While I understand what you mean, me personally, I belive people just throw the word “G.O.A.T” around with new artist for shock value, I think that’s when people laugh and call those cats dick riders and such. Now thinking he’s dope, and saying he’s talented is one thing, but saying he’s the greatest to ever do it (n) can be looked at as a strech.

I doubt any of the people saying he’s the g.o.a.t really belives that, I just have a hard time beliving that.

Um… Just for the record, I’ve never heard an electronica track, but those lyrics that were posted don’t really impress me. I get the imagery and everything, and I obviously have to listen to the whole song to get the full impact (nh), but um, yeah, just based on those lyrics? Sounds like some ol’ 1994 ish to me–soooo if that’s when he did it, cool, but eventually you gotta wonder why dude hasn’t released a full body of work.

If he has, I stand corrected, but if he hasn’t, why the reverse Charles Hamilton? If you’re that good and the people wanna hear your music (nahggers been d-riding this guy since 07), why not put some shit out, even on an indy level?

Anyway, I’m shutting down the compy, so have fun with this one. By the way, I’ve got “STFU crazy rey party sucked foh nigga” leading “STFU you like kanye west foh nigga” and “STFU you just don’t get his lyrics fuck outta here corny ass nigga” in the “Predictable Responses” pool. Cheers!

>Thats exactly why you keep shooting, i believe its called kicking a man while hes down. You dont stop herbing the herb… Example; Prodigy will forever get shitted on, Just cause

^But that’s kinda corny, and makes you seem bitter in the end. You still gotta have respect for your opponent, and once the people see your feelings are truely involved, you lost.

And what more damage can you do after the summer jam incident? That was like game over to the 9th degree, I still see that picture and lmao. Nigga was on his tippy toes for christ sakes, what more do you have to say?

^But that’s kinda corny, and makes you seem bitter in the end. You still gotta have respect for your opponent, and once the people see your feelings are truely involved, you lost.

And what more damage can you do after the summer jam incident? That was like game over to the 9th degree, I still see that picture and lmao. Nigga was on his tippy toes for christ sakes, what more do you have to say?

–its not like P has been quiet, he’s been on record saying slick shit and defending his summer jam pic. Personally i think Jay just does it to display his dominance, like “yea remember what i did to P, dont let it happen to you” that sorta thing

And what more damage can you do after the summer jam incident? That was like game over to the 9th degree, I still see that picture and lmao. Nigga was on his tippy toes for christ sakes, what more do you have to say?
======================================
Especially when there are guys who know Jay (ie: Jaz,DeHaven) that he won’t directly address & there are more high profile rappers who took shots at Hov and he either “ignores” them (ie: Curtis, Jim Jones, Jayceon) or signs them (ie. Nas, Jada)

I never really had a problem with Jay going at P, cause every chance P got, or every time someone brought hov’s name up, he felt it was his right to call him “a bitch ass nigga”

It’s just that he’s not here to defend himself properly that makes it messed up. If jay dropped 72 straight club bangers, diss records, anthems all dissing prodigy the first week he came home I would not disagree, it’s just the fact that he’s locked up that makes it fucked up.

But I understand your stance on it, P was dying to get Jay to respond for years, so i’m not mad at Jay for shitting on him whenever he felt like it, except for the prison stint. Some lines shouldn’t be crossed in battle, but Jay never seen those lines before

Personally i think Jay just does it to display his dominance, like “yea remember what i did to P, dont let it happen to you” that sorta thing
======================================
He hasn’t done anything near that to anyone else, ever.

He stays away from niggas who can actually compete.

He tried to son Joe Budden with that Pump It Up remix but when Budden responded, he had zero to say.

But I understand your stance on it, P was dying to get Jay to respond for years
============================================
I only remember P saying something about Jay after Jay made the “New York’s been soft” line.

JayZ attacked Prodigy and put his career on life support on “Takeover” and put the ballerina pictures on the Summer Jam screen not to mention throwing shots at P on “money,cash, hoes” not only that he sampled P’s line for D’evils …Jay is not only a Nas stanley he might be a Prodigy stanley as well

I think jay went at P because he and most of the NY hip hop community look at P as maybe the last dude that should try to come at a dude cause he’s a punk. It’s like the herb of the hood trying to get at you. You smash him out on some The Nerve of this N*gga sh*t.

Childhood pictures can’t hurt certain artist, like kanye for example, but childhood pictures of prodigy being in a dance class was almost ether because of the content of his music and how young he was when the mobb first came out, if he P was, let’s say between 10 and 12 when those pictures was taken, and juvenile hell days he was 14 or 15 there’s something wrong with that picture

And p is prolly the most gully, most natural born killer on wax, so those pictures takes away majority of his street cred

I don’t know thee exact quote, but I remember prody saying something about it after the joint on the infamous about the bitches they went to see in marcy, it’s a youtube clip, i’ll find it

And imo it does take away from his street cred, for one, them niggas was 13/14 on juvenile hell, and it takes about a year to fully complete a album, and if he was taken pictures at 12 looking like a before pic of michael jackson, when are you doing all of these dangerous things?

And that’s all he rapped about at one point, killing niggas. But you don’t have to be a gangster for me to like your music, but the timeline just doesn’t add up. He’s a studio gangster, or he was a studio gangster turned street guy to live up to his raps, which is kinda corny too

He could’ve been on some project windows type shit, but listening to old p, nigga sould like the terminator, with the heart of a spartain, and arsonal of robocop.

FTR, I agree with the majority of Jay being a lil scared to go at some off these niggas, but Jay also has the right to chose his own battles too.

If I could put a nigga album on the back burner that was disrespectful to me, i’d do it. If I could make a nigga swallow his pride (n) and make him sign to my label, only to start roc nation and have a clause in my contract that I can’t bring none of the former artist over I would

Jay’s legacy is in perfect shape w/o him having to beef with alot of niggas, so him dissing any of the other guys would just be for entertainment purpose

With most of the guys he beefed with (budden,prodigy, kiss) he won the battle and the war, he just won in a bitch ass fashion

And that’s all he rapped about at one point, killing niggas.
=======================================
This just reads mad funny lol.

But I get it. I think teenage P was doing some foul shit cause he was running with some grimy Queensbridge niggas and they wouldn’t have given him a pass cause he can rap. He had to have participated in some shit just to be accepted.

But as an adult, I never believed his rhymes as fact. He just makes it sound compelling.

My question, if you’re mad nice at spitting street shit, does it matter if you didn’t do half the shit you rhymed about? Why can’t Hip-Hop fans be allowed to seperate the music from the person?

>My question, if you’re mad nice at spitting street shit, does it matter if you didn’t do half the shit you rhymed about? Why can’t Hip-Hop fans be allowed to seperate the music from the person?

^It definently doesn’t matter to me, cause he’s one of my favorite artist ever, no lie, I don’t care if was spitting that shit while working at the kwik-e-mart, that shit was ill. And co-sign him rolling with some street dudes, queens niggas look mad scary (n)

>So is it really a win?

^lol, depends, if your all about the music and don’t care about the politics and such, naw, it’s a big L (r.i.p) but like we all know, hip hop or should I say “casual listeners” pay more attention to record sales, chains, whips, etc, so to them it’s a W, cause when you mention budden taking back the pump it up beat, a casual listener would just say, well what happen after that? Hov shut him down and stop him from eating, which made budden bitter, the nigga still vlogging about the incident like we don’t know everything that happen, lol. But it just depends on what you like (n)

I was prolly as hurt as prodigy was when he first heard “destroy and rebuild”

I still don’t know why NaS went at P for that. and I still think if every qb rapper in there respective prime battle every rapper from brooklyn, queens would smash them. Just my opinion tho, but queens rappers have a unique sound that I just loved.

Only if queens niggas could stick together (n) Maybe the bridge album would’ve been alot better, but have all of those talented artist on one cd, and for it to come out the way it did was almost a bust imo.

LF: is the Ready To Die album cover really bitten off of Nas’s Illmatic cover? …the RTD cover was BIG as a baby in diapers from the title im guessing he symbolize that he is “Ready To Die” as soon as he was born,Illmatic cover was Nas at 9years old with a queensbridge project building transparent in the background

is the Ready To Die album cover really bitten off of Nas’s Illmatic cover? …the RTD cover was BIG as a baby in diapers from the title im guessing he symbolize that he is “Ready To Die” as soon as he was born,Illmatic cover was Nas at 9years old with a queensbridge project building transparent in the background
======================================
Ghost took that shit and ran with it lol.

Deeper Than Rap > BP3
=============================
Yeah Amp you got some of that good sh*t. Your tripping.
But DTR>>> damn near everything else not named OBCL2 or BP3
Rawse should be forever known as the “EAR” because DTR beats are impeccable.

^this is a close call. both have a good share of dope songs and good amount of filler. DTR has crazy beats. And like Shot Clock says, a lot of BP3 is forgettable songs. I could toss a coin on this one.

Gun Harmonizing
Count For Nothing
Warriors
Shake This
New Money
Part of Me

all songs you coulda put on one CD before Royce did…lol. i think thats whats wrong about the album for me. i was just expecting more fresh material. Street Hop is almost compilation/mixtape like. It still has some fresh heat on it though.